Grow Food Northampton Farm Tour

This Farm Tour is a pre-gathering offering to visit Grow Food Northampton Community Farm & Garden (GFN) from 10 am - 12 pm EST on Friday, August 2, 2024.

The Northampton Community Farm & Garden sits on 121 acres on unceded Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Nonotuck Indigenous land. As the largest community farm in Massachusetts, GFN provides ethical stewardship and access to farmland so that people can grow food for themselves and their communities.

We will be led on a farm tour with Piyush Labhsetwar, an agroforestry farmer who leases 1/3 of an acre on the community farm and Mumat Aweys, an interpreter for the Somali Bantu farmers who cultivate annual vegetables on 6-acres that they lease from GFN, operating as an informal cooperative where 20 growers share maintenance costs and land equally.